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I faked myself out on that one. My head has been in a strange place for several days, and I started to reread my Robert Ingersoll collection because I haven't been able to sleep.

I just finished Some Mistakes of Moses early this AM, and I was still in the mood he creates in that book (supposing, JUST supposing that someone named Mosses did write the Pentateuch) when I read the joke the first time.

I also reread Jimmy Carter's book about how the Israelis have been pushing the Palestinians into smaller and smaller areas in the occupied territories. It's appalling, and I feel the Palestinians have a genuine grievance with Israel and the USA. Never thought I'd say that, but it's true.

Sadly, I could see it being based upon real arguments made by some Israelis, although hopefully not by anyone influential enough to get sent to the UN on their behalf. I think they have a good number of analogues to our fundamentalist nuts, over there.

Strangely, the only feeling I ever had about going to mass was boredom. I even became an altar boy for 5 or 6 years, just to have something to do during mass. Perhaps the lack of emotional pull helped keep the childhood brainwashing from taking hold, although there were many other factors.

as very young of age i have desacralised all of this, and purged it from my system (although i cannot remember ever believing) and never could get influenced by the general pop culture feeling of shame and humility that everyone seemed to assume only at the precise fraction of second as they passed through the doors of the church.

Same here. I have vague memories of when I was 5 or 6 years old, listening to the stories out of the Gospels and wondering why the silly adults expected us to believe that they actually happened, when they were so obviously like the stories in Aesop's Fables and Grimm's Fairy-tales that I got told at home.

I was always a bit dubious, but I had firmly concluded that the bible was a bunch of nonsense, sometime around the age of 11 or 12.

And what is worse, the worse of all. Priest walks among people with an overbearing stance and that stupid condescending look in his face.

i always thought that a person has power only as long as there are people willing to be subdued by power. Same goes for anything that has power

Most of the Catholic priests I dealt with were pretty decent, really. I think the more imperious, overbearing attitude comes from those further up in the church hierarchy.

I had a couple who I talked to who said flat-out that there's nothing wrong with things like Dungeons & Dragons and other fantasy games, as long as you remember that it's fantasy. I was pretty surprised by that, given how much crazed fear of demonic influence I had heard from the more extreme, conservative Christians. I have to wonder how many of the priests I interacted with were the sort that we know about now, who are basically atheists stuck in the clergy.

And thanks for the concise flowchart showing how praying to one's deity of choice is exactly as effective as praying to a jug of milk. [Unless taking part in the ritual helps the person go and be open to opportunities, and do things that actually help!] That argument was stated powerfully in GodIsImaginary.com.

Srsly...I need them right now. Just found out that Colleen McCullough died this week. I hated most of her books except her "Masters of Rome" series. THOSE books are amazing! Damn. So many of my favorite authors have died in the last 10 -15 years!